I have finally had the time to take a little better look at the code and
actually test
ximgview/wxpyimgview. I replaced my first PR [1] for deleting GRASS_NOTIFY
with a PR [2] with which a G_warning is issued if the system call fails.
The documentation on using ximgview/wxpyimgview, including the
I did some tinkering around the potential interface for such module:
https://github.com/marisn/grass-addons/tree/v_text_bbox/src/vector/v.text.bbox
Uwe, if nobody else has stepped up to help you, poke me after
Christmas as I might have some spare evening before the New Years eave
to do more fiddli